Fresh Fruit Cobbler

Difficulty: Medium

Category: Dessert

Time: 25 minute prep/ 25 minute cook

Serves: 12

In season fruit – and especially the fruits of fall, are very forgiving when cooked. My family loves this recipe because it is healthy and guilt-free! I love it because of course, it’s versatile and so very simple!

The fruit can become a cobbler for dessert (recipe below) , a warm dinner table side-dish pureed into an applesauce consistency. You can spice it up or eliminate spices completely! Use a pottery crock for Sunday dinner or grandma’s trifle dish for the Thanksgiving dessert table.

Ingredients:

The base of the recipe:

Fruit

4 Large (your favorite variety) apples cored and sliced into 8 wedges each

5 Anjou or Bosc pears peeled and seeded, sliced into 8 wedges each

½ Cup Freshly Squeezed Orange juice

1 Large lemon squeezed

3 TBS ground cinnamon

1 TBS ground nutmeg

½ teaspoon ground cloves

1 TBS potato starch

Cobbler Topping

1 ¼ Cup Rice Flour
¼ Cup Coconut Flour

1 TBS Baking Powder

½ tsp fine sea salt

3 – 4 TBS Solid Coconut Oil

½ or more coconut milk

½ Cup of fresh coconut flakes (optional)

Directions:

Mix all fruit together in a large stock pot. Add the juice of the squeezed lemon and the orange juice. Combine the dry ingredients and mix into the fruit. Cover and heat over medium heat stirring, gently and frequently. Watch for mixture to thicken and cook down about 1/ 4 . The water in the fruit will add to the dry ingredients to make a natural syrup. 20 to 30 minutes.

Pour mixture into a large crock or large glass baking dish. Place dish onto a baking sheet to avoid oven spills from bubbling fruit.

Combine first 4 ingredients in a small bowl. Rub the coconut oil into the dry mix with finger tips until the mix resembles course, moist crumbs. Add coconut milk and stir with a fork. You will look for a sticky consistency. Add additional coconut milk if necessary. Drop by spoonful onto fruit mixture. Toss coconut flakes onto the top if you LOVE coconut!

Place in pre-heated 350 oven and cook for 25 minutes until cobbler top rises and is browned.

Spoon into individual bowls and serve warm. For an added treat, scoop a spoonful of coconut or almond “ice-cream” onto cobbler. A no-regrets dessert!